Micropoint Megafeet (set of 3)

Standing 3” tall and 3” in diameter, Micropoint Megafeet are our very best footer for componets and speakers with flat metal or hard plastic bottoms.

For footers, bigger is better—even under light components. More mass means audibly lower resonances. Weighing almost 6 pounds each, our full-height 3" Micropoint Megafeet may be the most massive footers you’ve ever seen. At 3½ times the weight of our 2" Heavyfoot series, 3" diameter Megafeet offer significantly deeper bass as well as more warmth, clearer ambience, extra treble air and enhanced transparency.

Combining the huge mass of the our 3" dimeter footers with the tiny 1/64” height and vanishing tip resonances of the Micropoint yields the ultimate footer for mounting any CD player, turntable, preamp, amp, power supply or power conditioner—as long as they have a hard, flat bottom. Micropoint Megafeet work equally well under a 20 pound CD player or a 200 pound behemoth amp—and sounds decisively better than any other footer or suspension in the world, as demonstrated by hundreds of shootoffs and backed by our money back guarantee. We make only a version for uncarpeted surfaces.

The equally massive MegaMount substitutes somewhat taller “minipoints” for the micropoints. The extra height above the top surface of the footer is essential when mounting both wood-bottomed gear like speakers and hard-bottomed components with protuberances such as screw heads. For the downward-facing point, MegaMounts are available with the standard short, sharp point for uncarpeted surfaces. MegaMounts can also be custom-ordered with a smoothly radiused bottom for avoiding “dings” in beautifully polished floors or furniture (at a very slight penalty in sound), a longer point for thin carpets, and an even longer sharper point for thick luxury carpets. All Megafeet can be ordered as single footers and/or as sets of three.

We recommend using unattached footers in sets of three to avoid shimming. Using four may require shimming the height of one footer to compensate for slight unevenness of the surface below and there’s no sonic advantage to using four. Please call 1-888-236-2753 to order footers a la carte.

The Mapleshade Vibration Control System

Our Vibration Control System has three elements: brass footers drain vibration out of the component or speaker and down into a platform; air-dried maple platforms receive and dissipate that vibration; and Isoblocks under the platform isolate it from resonances below it (except for speaker platforms which must be rigidly mounted via brass footers to the floor below). Each element alone will upgrade your sound. Used together, they yield startling improvements. Here are the fundamentals:

• Hybrid isolation/coupling devices like Roller Blocks, IsoBearings, magnetic couplers, etc. purport to serve three essential functions—vibration transfer, vibration dissipation and external isolation—all in one convenient footer. Unfortunately, such all-in-one devices can serve none of the three functions well. They may change, perhaps even improve, sound a bit in one area, but with penalties in other areas, e.g better midrange detail but soggier bass, less edgy treble but slower, duller transients, etc.

The Mapleshade Vibration Control System serves the three functions using three different components, each optimized for one and only one function:

• First, our brass footers are designed only to cleanly drain out as much internal vibrational energy as possible from electronics and speakers. We specifically optimized our footers’ shape, material, alloy, and mass to maximize the vibrational energy transferred out of the gear and minimize the energy reflected back. Fifteen years of customer shootoffs have shown they do so more effectively and sound better than any competing footer or hybrid at any price.

• Second, maple platforms (or SAMSON shelves) serve as the optimal sink for receiving and dissipating the vibrational energy transferred out of the component by the footers. Surprisingly, exhaustive testing against every space age damping material and composite used in high-end platforms today shows solid wood (not plywood or MDF) to be better sounding sink. And, among the wood species available, the same tests show maple to have, by a sizable margin, the most detailed and uncolored sound (click HERE for more details on this and on the importance of air dried maple).

• Third, the specific size and laminate composition of Isoblocks was designed, by ear, to best isolate the maple platform from resonances or vibrations in the supporting shelf or floor below. The final six-laminate design proved to sound better than any of the myriad suspension systems we've tested, even the megabuck magnetic or air suspensions. One exception: Mapleshade DOES NOT recommend using Isoblocks under speakers or speaker stands because they let speakers rock slightly, producing somewhat muddier bass and imaging. Here, we always recommend using brass footers. This is just one example of the attention to detail that has gone into the development of Mapleshade's deceptively simple looking component mounting system.

Additional Info

• Footers work optimally on wood or MDF surfaces, but still give excellent sonic improvements on concrete, granite or tile. On glass you will hear excessive trebler brightness due to the strong high frequency resonance of glass reflected back into the footer. On glass, concrete, granite or tile, we strongly recommend adding a Mapleshade Platform under the brass footers to eliminate the sonic degradation caused by poor sink materials. Adding our Maple Platform will yield a huge improvement over just footers.

• If you use three footers under a component, they do not need height adjustment. If you use four footers (for added stability), check each one to make sure it is bearing full weight. Typically one of the four will be too short and slightly loose due to slight unevenness of the equipment bottom or the mounting surface below; a loose footer causes audible sonic degradation. For unthreaded footers, use a shim above the loose footer to fill in the needed height. To shim, use 2x2 inch squares cut from standard manila folders (i.e., very hard cardboard). Even better is wood veneer or brass shim stock.

• Footer effectiveness is almost always improved by adding weight on top of the component. Brass weights sound much better than weights of lead, iron, bricks, stone or sand (that’s why we offer our Heavyhat brass weights). Weights sound best if supported on three sharp points (like our Micropoint Heavyhats) rather than just resting on their flat bottom surfaces. Increase weight by increments of no more than 3/4 to 1-1/2 pounds. You’ll eventually reach a total weight where just one extra 1/2 pound dramatically dulls the sound; “eventually” may be as soon as the second weight. The optimum number of weights cannot be predicted and differs from one component to another.

I recently purchased the Micropoint Heavyfeet. After putting them under my Primaluna HP Int amp they sounded so good I had to order the Micropoint Megafeet! I knew vibration muddied up sound but had no idea how much. I moved the Micropoint heavyfeet to my EAD cd player and installed the MP Megafeet under my PL HP int. The immediate detail was incredible. The sound stage, imaging and bass went to a whole new level. The performance to price ratio is well worth the price of admission

Adam Golembiewski

Dont hesitate on buying these

5/3/2016

Have my system all decked out with mapleshade and had heavy feat under
my B and K amp, and of course it sounds really good.Then i put these under my amp and i could hear a lot more detail on everything,I just couldnt believe the improvement in the music.If you love music,then I think you found your match.

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